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Globethics.net Newsletter No 9/2018

Editorial

Universities - empowering teachers, transforming lives

By Lucy Howe López, Deputy Executive Director, Globethics.net

"Why are you doing this?" a law professor asked me. It was the first day of a four-day training of teachers on ethics in higher education that our Globethics.net team were organising at her university in Nigeria. I asked her how many students she was teaching this year. "Two hundred in total", she replied, "at undergraduate and post-graduate level". Then I asked how many she had taught last year, and the year before, in fact how many had she taught during her teaching career. In her ten-year career she had taught over 2,000 students, not to mention all those that she will go on to teach in the future and those that some of her students are or will perhaps teach in turn.

Points of View

This is the time for Nigeria

By Ndidi Nwuneli, Globethics.net Board Member

Nigeria has a population of 200 million people and a greater proportion of people in poverty now than India has. The system is broken because of poor leadership, rulers who dominated the political landscape for over 30 years, weak institutions and a population that has lost a lot of hope.

Hinduism: the concerns of the heart and looking to the life after life

By Pavan Duggal, Globethics.net Board Member

In India the Hindu culture addresses the concerns of the heart. They have texts that are 5,000 years old, focused on how to control the heart. The conflict between the heart and the mind has existed from the beginning of humanity.

The Globethics.net Academy has designed a course to allow teachers from Consortium Member institutions to strengthen their competences. Learn how to recognise, understand and address ethical issues within your field of work through this eight week online course. Special fees for Consortium Member institutions

Globethics.net experts successfully trained staff from six Nigerian universities, two of them Founding Members of the Globethics Consortium on Ethics in Higher Education in Enugu in the southeast of Nigeria